Andrew STEWART

(1836-1903)

STEWART, Andrew, (son of
Andrew Stewart [1791-1872]), a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., April 6, 1836; attended
Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, Pa., and Madison College, Uniontown,
Pa.; studied medicine and attended Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, Pa.; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in
the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and
served throughout the war; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; presented credentials as a
Republican Member-elect to the Fifty-second Congress and served
from March 4, 1891, to February 26, 1892, when he was succeeded by
Alexander K. Craig, who contested his election; unsuccessful
candidate for election to the Fifty-second Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Alexander K. Craig; engaged in the
manufacture of paper pulp and lumber; died in Stewarton, Fayette
County, Pa., November 9, 1903; interment in Union Cemetery,
Uniontown, Pa.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present